Juliette Lewis

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Biography

American actress and musician. She was born 21 June 1973 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

  • Real name
  • Juliette Lewis
  • Name variations
  • J. Lewis·J.Lewis·Juliette L.·Julliete Lewis·Lewis
  • Aliases
  • Julliete Lewis·Juliette Lake Lewis
  • Juliette & The Licks
  • Primary profession
  • Actress·soundtrack·director
  • Country
  • United States
  • Nationality
  • American
  • Gender
  • Female
  • Birth date
  • 21 June 1973
  • Place of birth
  • Los Angeles
  • Spouses
  • Steve Berra
  • Member of
  • Juliette and the New Romantiques
  • Parents
  • Geoffrey Lewis

Music

Lyrics

Movies

TV

Books

Trivia

Sister of Lightfield Lewis and Brandy Lewis. Half-sister of Dierdre Lewis and Matthew Lewis.

Legally emancipated from her parents at age 14.

Dropped out of high school just three weeks after starting.

Arrested for being underage in an underground dance club at age 16. The arresting officer, who recognized her dad when he picked her up at the station, gave Juliette her mug shot (the charges were dropped), which now hangs, poster-size, in her home (this picture can be seen at Fan Page)

Drove without drivers license until she was 21. She owned a car bought under a friends name and had been driving illegally since age 15. Eventually got a license after she got caught not stopping at a stop sign.

Father almost named her Snow Lake.

Daughter of Geoffrey Lewis and Glenys Batley, a graphic designer.

Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#75).

Played a suicidal mental patient in the music video for the Melissa Etheridge song "Come to My Window". Lewis erratic behavior frightened the director to the point where he yelled "Cut!" several unnecessary times for fear that Lewis had truly suffered a mental/emotional breakdown.

Her song from Natural Born Killers was used in another song, "Bad Brother" by The Infidels.

Auditioned for the role of Lydia Deetz which was played by Winona Ryder in Beetlejuice .

Fronts a rock band called "Juliette and the Licks" which is touring on Vans Warped Tour in 2004.

Posed for a portrait in US Magazine, by Peggy Sirota, which featured nothing but an extreme close-up of the soles of her bare feet.

Although she is now divorced, she remains good friends with her ex-husband, Stephen Berra.

She was introduced to her future husband Stephen Berra by her younger sister Brandy Lewis.

Ranked #7 on Tropopkins Top 25 Most Intriguing People [Issue #100]

Sister-in-law of Ethan Suplee. He is married to her sister Brandy Lewis.

Friend of Alanis Morissette.

Turned down the role of Mia Thermopolis that eventually went to Anne Hathaway in The Princess Diaries .

(July 2007) Performed in Finnish rock music festival Ruisrock.

(October 2007) She was in Buenos Aires, Argentina only for one day (October 26), where she acted with her band The Licks in a private event.

(May 2006) London, England, in rehearsal to star as "May" (alongside Martin Henderson as "Eddie") in the upcoming revival of Sam Shepard s "Fool for Love", which opens at the Apollo Theatre on 13th June.

Had a four-year relationship with Brad Pitt. She was 16 years old, while Pitt was 26 when their relationship began in 1989. They met on the set of the TV movie Too Young to Die? , in which they played a couple, and worked together again in Kalifornia . They lived together and the relationship ended in 1993.

Quotes

Just to buck the system in California, I bought a Mazda for $6,000 when,I was 15 without even bothering to get a license.

The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die.

The worst thing you can do to a kid is tell them that their dreams are invalid.

I kind of imagine myself at eighty, a cat lady.

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